Welsh health service is “unsustainable,” report says

Climate change, human health, and unsustainable development.

The term sustainable development has been misunderstood and misinterpreted, often parodied, and even derided. Today we face the consequences of our wilful dismissal. Climate change is upon us. Had we taken sustainable development more seriously, we might have done far more to create a healthy society and environment. But unbridled economic development, predicated on unfettered use of resources,...

The ill health of Jane Welsh Carlyle.

to Gotfredsen, Huang-Ti's famous textbook Nei Ching (Canon medicinae) contains a description of a disease which cannot be any other than diabetes mellitus. Hirsch says in 1883 that the earliest statements on diabetes mellitus are to be found in Sushruta's Ayur-Veda where Hessler's translation runs: 'Mellita urina laborantem quem medicus indicat, ille etiam incurabilis dictus est'. (When the doc...

Quarantining health workers returning from Ebola affected countries is "bad science," says public health adviser.

How effective is the new community-based Welsh low vision service?

AIMS To determine if there was a significant difference between user-centred and clinical outcomes in people with low vision who attended a new community-based low vision service (CLVS) or the hospital-based low vision service (HBLV). METHODS A prospective controlled before and after study. Participants were recruited from the CLVS (n=343; 96 male, 247 female; median age 82 years) and from th...

The Unsustainable City

―Make cities more sustainable‖ is an omnipresent slogan in architecture and urban planning. This article is a discussion on theoretical and practical boundaries of using the expression ―sustainability‖ with respect to the scientific community, therefore avoiding sustainability becoming a euphemism for ―doing good‖. By definition, it can be concluded, cities developed as counterparts to the hint...